with
_deep_? To what objects may these words be severally applied? 3. What is
the special significance of _tall_? 4. What element does _lofty_ add to
the meaning of _high_ or _tall_? 5. How do _elevated_ and _eminent_
compare in the literal sense? in the figurative? 6. How do the words
above mentioned compare with _exalted_? 7. What contrasted uses has
_high_ in the figurative sense? 8. What is _towering_ in the literal,
and in the figurative sense?

EXAMPLES.

A pillar'd shade, ---- overarched, and echoing walks between.

A daughter of the gods, divinely ---- and most divinely fair.

What is that which the breeze on the ---- steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?

He knew
Himself to sing, and build the ---- rime.

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HINDER (page 199).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is it to _hinder_? 2. How does _hinder_ differ from _delay_? 3.
How does _hinder_ compare with _prevent_? 4. What is the meaning of
_retard_? 5. What is it to _obstruct_? to _resist_? How do these two
words compare with each other?

EXAMPLES.

---- the Devil, and he will flee from you.

My tears must stop, for every drop
---- my needle and thread.

It is the study of mankind to ---- that advance of age or death
which can not be ----.

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HISTORY (page 200).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _history_? How does it relate events? To what class of events
does it apply? 2. How does _history_ differ from _annals_ or
_chronicles_?

EXAMPLES.

Happy the people whose ---- are dulled.

---- is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes.

---- is philosophy teaching by example.

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HOLY (page 200).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the meaning of _sacred_? 2. How does it compare with _holy_?
3. Which term do we apply directly to God? 4. In what sense is _divine_
loosely used? What is its more appropriate sense?

EXAMPLES.

The ---- time is quiet as a nun breathless with adoration.

A ---- burden is this life ye bear.

All sects and churches of Christendom hold to some form of the
doctrine of the ---- inspiration of the Christian Scriptures.

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HOME (page 201).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the general sense of _abode_, _dwelling_, and _habitation_?
What